Finley – McFarling genealogy collection
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Sonoma State University Library
2021
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Title: Finley – McFarling genealogy collection
Dates: 1740-1830
Collection Number: Consult repository
Creator/Collector:
Finley, Carmen J.
Extent: 9 linear feet; 10 boxes
Repository:
Sonoma State University Library
Rohnert Park, California 94928
Abstract: The Finley-McFarling Genealogy Collection contains over 700 citations to documents involving early Finley families in Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Texas and California along with a number of collateral lines. These documents,
all in transcribed form and many with copies of the original documents, include deeds, court records, tax and census records,
marriage and other vital records, as well as some extensive probate records, and abstracts taken from standard sources, correspondence,
and other family history documentation.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research by appointment.
The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary
property
Finley – McFarling genealogy collection . Sonoma State University Library
Biography/Administrative History
Carmen J. Finley, PhD., C.G., is a retired research psychologist. Her interest in genealogy began in 1979 and she started
publishing articles in 1988, her first being in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Since then she has published
additional articles in the NGS Quarterly as well as in The Virginia Genealogist, the American Genealogist and Tennessee Ancestors.
She is the author of The Finleys of Early Sonoma County, California, published by Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, in
1997.
She has been chairman of the NGS Family History Contest since 1990, for which she recently received the NGS Distinguished
Service Award.
She is especially interested in methodology as it applies to the study of family history. In 1998 she and the Sonoma State
University Library jointly received the GENTECH Applied Technology award for outstanding contributions to technological and
genealogical quality, based on the development of her database of the Finley family collection.
She is a native of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, and the fourth generation of her family to live in Sonoma County.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Finley - McFarling Genealogy Collection consists of 10 boxes of genealogical material as well as a full text digital database
with library catalog access.
Further information is available on Carmen Finley’s website “Finley-McFarling Family History” [http://sites.rootsweb.com/~cascgs/].
Armstrong family
Bancroft family
Bischoff family
Boydston family
Boyle family
Caldwell family
Downing family
Ellison family
Ellroth/Elrod family
Finley family
Fullerton family
Hackney family
Harlan family
Head family
Heald family
Janney family
Jenkins family
Jones family
Knevett family
Lesh/Loesch family
McAra family
McFarland family
McFarling family
McKnight family
Minear family
Mount family
Pabst family
Roy family
Stalnaker family
Stemple family
Walborn family
Willis family